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New 'Inkscape Answers' site
by Bryce Harrington 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi all, As some have already noticed, we have a new website for posting usage questions about Inkscape: http://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/ This is different from the bug tracker - it's for when you have questions about how to do something in Inkscape. It's nice, in that it allows keeping track of if your question has been "Solved" or not. Developers can then easily and quickly peek in for any still open questions. If it turns out your question is really a bug or feature request, it can be easily bumped over into the bug tracker appropriately. I notice that a huge amount of the traffic here on inkscape-user@ has been usage questions; I hope Answers will give a more powerful and reliable way to gain an answer to your Inkscape usage questions, and allow the inkscape-user@ list to focus on more artistic and technique discussions. :-) Bryce

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Handling objects in stacks
by Eireson 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

i have been attempting to 'unstack' items returned from potrace. since i often have many groups stacked as a result of multiple scan passes, it can get difficult to manage them. I attempted to use 'export groups as PNG' but nothing happens. anyone have any idea how i can efficiently separate a deep stack of groups? geo. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Handling-objects-in-stacks-tp14521057p14521057.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Development packages for OS X (About screen contest)
by jiho 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Hi everyone, Thanks to the help of several people, there are now recent development builds of Inkscape for PowerPC (G4-G5), as well as prebuilt python modules for all machines (ppc and intel) and all python versions currently available on OS X (2.3 - 2.5). These new builds are available on modevia as usual: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D Python packages are integrated into the application so drag Inkscape and drop it somewhere on your machine (e.g. in Applications) and everything should "just work". There are two PPC packages (dec24 and 16774) which should work on Tiger and Leopard and one i386 (Intel) package (16834) which, unfortunately, is Leopard-only. These should be still in time for the about screen contest and will provide good testing for the release. Cheers to all those involved in PPC compiling. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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PDF export stroke bug?
by Alexander Bonivento 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Hello everyone, and happy Xmas! I noticed a small thing, dunno if it's a bug or not. Attached you will find: - svgsource.svg This is the svg source of this test - ink_0_44_1.pdf SVG file exported with Inkscape 0.44.1 (Sep 9 2006) - ink_0_45_devel.pdf SVG file exported with Inkscape 0.45+devel (Dec 8 2007) All the exports are made in commandline, using the following command: inkscape -z svgsource.svg --export-pdf=xxx.pdf --export-text-to-path While stroke in ink_0_44_1.pdf seems correct, there are broken points in ink_0_45_devel.pdf (for example, look the top-left corner of the "B" letter). Any thought about this? It works with a past version, what may cause this in the SVN i'm using? Thanks in advance, Alex

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shared whiteboard mode
by unknown＠example.com 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

I am new to inkscape, and don't use chat much, but am very experianced with Linux overall (I've been useing linux as my desktop for over 10 years now), but I am having problems figuring out how to get the shared whiteboard to work. I got as far as getting a ejabberd server running on my laptop, and I could get two instances of inkscape to see each other enough to be able to do a chat, but I can't get something I draw on one page to show up on another. looking for info on this type of problem on the inkscape website is frustrating, there are refrences to inkboard, and then after I dig further I see that it's been integrated into inkscape for a couple of years now, but I can't find any mention of it in any documentation or tutorial. any suggestions? David Lang

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Assign URL to object?
by Claus Cyrny 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Hi all, recently, I started using embedded SVGs on my web site. Now I would like to make certain objects (say, a circle) clickable by assigning URLs to them. Does Inkscape/SVG support this, and in case that it does, how is this done? I'm assuming, if at all, it would have to be by using the XML editor. TIA, Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English)

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.45 Dec 24 nightly
by Rob Antonishen 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

I tried the Dec24 nightly build (win32) for angled guides and it seems to have broken printing.... Anyone else try to print from this build under windows? -Rob A>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Something changed with --export-ps?
by bulia byak 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

On 24 Dec 2007 16:59:34 +0100, Johan Vromans <jvromans@...2328...> wrote: > Hi, > > In a couple of scripts I call inkscape to convert (export) an SVG to > a PS file: > > inkscape --export-ps psfile.ps --export-text-to-path orig.svg I cannot confirm this with svn version, works fine except that I get a warning ** (inkscape:17566): WARNING **: Could not set export-bbox-page option for this export. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Unsubscribe
by Grey 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

-- Wellington Grey London Grey1618@...2428... www.WellingtonGrey.net www.silverclipboard.com

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NEW: Angled guidelines
by unknown＠example.com 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hello all, * Angled Guidelines Now, Inkscape also provides angled guidelines! Double click on a guide to set its angle. Regards, Johan

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Bucket Fill
by Docsonic 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

I couldn't figure out why bucket fill didn't seem to work lately - I finally realised, the grow/shrink comes up as 100000 by default so it *does* work but the result is nothing like what is expected. Shouldn't the default for the grow/shrink be 0? Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bucket-Fill-tp14461736p14461736.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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.46 enhancements
by Rob Antonishen 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Just wanted to say "woo-hoo" for this one: "The Tile Clones dialog now uses the object's defined rotation axis (which can be freely moved by Selector tool and which is saved separately for each object) for all rotations (including both symmetry rotations and the Rotation tab rotations), scales, and flips. This renders unnecessary the previous workarounds where you had to group an object with another transparent object to affect how it's rotated by the clone tiler." from the .46 draft release notes. -Rob A>

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My Scalable Vector Graphics Don't Scale
by Frank Gilroy 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi Folks, This is probably a newbie kind of a question but I couldn't find the answer in the docs or FAQ after 30 minutes or so of looking. When I create an drawing and save it as .svg the image doesn't scale when I open it in Mozilla Firefox or embed it in HTML. Examples: The following image is in SVG format and scales when the browser is resized (I don't know what was used to create this SVG): http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/canvas_norelief.svg The following image was created in Inkscape and doesn't scale: http://frankgilroy.com/uploaded_images/bootstrapgirl.svg Is there a simple setting that will update the XML in the SVG file to allow for this scaling? Frank -- Frank Gilroy Was Here http://www.frankgilroy.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 19, Issue 21
by Odo 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, wieing at the source code, the not scaling svg has defined width and height. instead the one witch is scalling right don´t. have you tried to remove this properties? "Saludos" froms spain > Hi Folks, > > This is probably a newbie kind of a question but I couldn't find the answer > in the docs or FAQ after 30 minutes or so of looking. > > When I create an drawing and save it as .svg the image doesn't scale when I > open it in Mozilla Firefox or embed it in HTML. > > Examples: > > The following image is in SVG format and scales when the browser is resized > (I don't know what was used to create this SVG): > > http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/canvas_norelief.svg > > The following image was created in Inkscape and doesn't scale: > > http://frankgilroy.com/uploaded_images/bootstrapgirl.svg > > Is there a simple setting that will update the XML in the SVG file to allow > for this scaling? > > Frank -- <<< this email was written with 100% recycable electrons>>>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] My Scalable Vector Graphics Don't Scale
by Alex 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Frank, it is an issue with the image viewer, not with the XML file itself. I use Opera - and it scales correctly in this browser. Another example is Gnome's default image viewer (in Fedora, I forgot its name). It doesn't scale the SVG, instead it stretches it (with interpolation) as if it were a raster image; at least this is what happens on my computer. Alex Railean

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Re: [Inkscape-user] My Scalable Vector Graphics Don't Scale (Benjamin Huot)
by Frank Gilroy 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Interesting. I'm assuming you're on a Mac. Safari on Windows doesn't scale my Inkscape created image either. And when I embed the images in HTML they don't scale in any browser I tried. I haven't tried it on my Mac yet, I'm on a work PC at the moment. Regardless it seems the images should scale when embedded in HTML. Does anyone know the XML tag that controls this? I noticed in the Map image referred to below that the dimensions of the image are specified but when I tried to manually remove them from the Inkspace generated XML it didn't help. Frank > I resized the browser window in Safari and it scaled fine. > > On Dec 21, 2007, at 7:01 AM, Frank Gilroy wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > > > This is probably a newbie kind of a question but I couldn't find > > the answer in the docs or FAQ after 30 minutes or so of looking. > > > > When I create an drawing and save it as .svg the image doesn't > > scale when I open it in Mozilla Firefox or embed it in HTML. > > > > Examples: > > > > The following image is in SVG format and scales when the browser is > > resized (I don't know what was used to create this SVG): > > > > http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/canvas_norelief.svg > > > > The following image was created in Inkscape and doesn't scale: > > > > http://frankgilroy.com/uploaded_images/bootstrapgirl.svg > > > > Is there a simple setting that will update the XML in the SVG file > > to allow for this scaling? > > > > Frank > > > > -- > > > > Frank Gilroy Was Here > > http://www.frankgilroy.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > >

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Fw: About PDF Import and a font name problem.
by Kim Hovorka 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Sincerely, Kim Hovorka 801-785-3669 kimhovorka@...12... --- On Tue, 12/18/07, Kim Hovorka <kimhovorka@...12...> wrote: > From: Kim Hovorka <kimhovorka@...12...> > Subject: About PDF Import and a font name problem. > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 11:39 PM > Hello, > > I have to import PDF files on a daily basis from PDF > drivers such > as Adobe PDF printer driver or PrimoPDF and when importing > one > thing I have recently learned as I am starting to work with > inkscape > is that the Font names seem to not get imported properly > and perhaps > this is a known bug. If the font used to print to the > Driver is > for example Times New Roman, when it is imported to SVG in > inkscape > it is converted to the name TimesNewRoman and the missing > spaces > are the main problem in the font name. If I use a text > editor > and do a search and replace on TimesNewRoman and replace it > with > Times New Roman then the font is used properly. I would > hope this > can be easily corrected. > > I have another question and I don't know if there is > somewhere you > can already do this. It would be nice if the X= value could > be limited > to just a single X coordinate rather than a list in my type > of work so > that the text string is a single string in positioning. > Example: x="-3.296843 1.747382 2.3432245" could > just be x="-3.296843". > Is that a possibility? > > Sincerely, > > Kim Hovorka > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Re: [Inkscape-user] resizing page without resizing drawing?
by Tony Vigil 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

I've never seen graphics rescale when I change my page size. Opposite to what was originally asked, how would one force objects to scale with the page when the page size is changed? I see mention of a viewBox attribute. Is that something that is only available through manual editing of the XML, or does Inkscape have this feature per object? If Inkscape isn't capable of doing this (yet), could it be a useful feature? - Tony

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match properties
by heathenx 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Was thinking. In AutoCAD we have this feature called "Match Properties". Basically, if you have two different objects with different properties, say color, layer, or linetype, one can select the source object (the one with the properties that you want) and apply it's properties to the target object. Is there anything in Inkscape that is similar? heathenx

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Re: [Inkscape-user] resizing page without resizing drawing?
by Cedric Sagne 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

To bring some water to the mill, I had a "squashed" image problem importing in Scribus (those also on that list saw it). The image I drew is based on a vectorisation of a picture through VectorMagic, the vectoriser of Stanford University, which did add the viewbox attribute to all files I created through there. It is possibly also the case of files created in AI ! viewBox="0 0 132 175" A small Inkscape file does not create such an attribute. But is there indeed a place in the Inkscape GUI where it is visible? Cédric

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About PDF Import and a font name problem.
by Kim Hovorka 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Hello, I have to import PDF files on a daily basis from PDF drivers such as Adobe PDF printer driver or PrimoPDF and when importing one thing I have recently learned as I am starting to work with inkscape is that the Font names seem to not get imported properly and perhaps this is a known bug. If the font used to print to the Driver is for example Times New Roman, when it is imported to SVG in inkscape it is converted to the name TimesNewRoman and the missing spaces are the main problem in the font name. If I use a text editor and do a search and replace on TimesNewRoman and replace it with Times New Roman then the font is used properly. I would hope this can be easily corrected. I have another question and I don't know if there is somewhere you can already do this. It would be nice if the X= value could be limited to just a single X coordinate rather than a list in my type of work so that the text string is a single string in positioning. Example: x="-3.296843 1.747382 2.3432245" could just be x="-3.296843". Is that a possibility? Sincerely, Kim Hovorka ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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Vacuum defs minor problem
by Brian Vanderburg II 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

I'm not sure if this is only my problem or not, but vacuuming defs only seems to work when the file is freshly opened/reverted. If I make changes to a file that causes new defs to be created, then delete something else that no longer needs some defs and do a vacuum defs, it does not. If I save the file and then do a vacuum defs, it still does not. Only if I reopen and then vacuum or save then revert then vacuum does it seem to work. It's not too big of a deal, but the file size is reduced a little when the unused defs are no longer there, and I normally do this before saving without thinking about saving, reverting, vacuuming, and then saving again. I'm on XP SP2, and this seems to be the case with 0.45 and a development snapshot I've recently downloaded. Brian Vanderburg II

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More control over gradients
by Brian Vanderburg II 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

First of all thanks for such a great product. I know that full control can be achieved by directly editing the file, but I don't know how much Inkscape might still change. After looking though the files produced by Inkscape, I know that for each item that uses a gradient, a special 'dummy' gradient is created that uses the 'real' gradient. This makes it where each item can have it's own transforms for the gradient. But, what if I want two items to use the same transforms, the same 'dummy' gradient. I could use a clone, but what if I have an ellipse and a rectangle, but both I want to use the same gradient. Here is how it currently works: linearGradient1234 (real gradient with real stops) | |- linearGradient2345 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | | | |- rectangle (using dummy gradient 2345) | |- linearGradient7890 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | |- ellipse (using dummy gradient 7890) What I want to be able to do is this: linearGradient1234 (real gradient with real stops) | |- linearGradient2345 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | |- rectangle (using dummy gradient 2345) |- ellipse (using dummy gradient 2345) So that any transforms I apply to the gradient used by the rectangle will also affect the ellipse. Perhaps something that would be nice would be a 'graph' editor for gradients (and for other things maybe as well) that would show the 'real' gradient, and any 'dummy' child gradients connected, grandchild gradients,etc, or something where you can define the actual relationship however you want. Then, when assigning a gradient you can select from not a gradient list only showing the 'real' but a tree, where the items in the root of the tree are the top gradients and sub-items are child gradients that use the top gradients or their parent gradients (support for any level of nested gradients, grandchild gradients, etc) When editing a gradient for an item, the ability to 'pick' which gradient is being edited would be nice as well. For example. If my document is like this: linearGradient1234 (real gradient with real stops) | |- linearGradient2345 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | |- rectangle (using dummy gradient 2345) | |- linearGradient7890 (dummy gradient uses 2345 which uses 1234) |- ellipse (using dummy gradient 7890) When editing the gradient of the ellipse, I can choose to edit gradient 7890 which would only affect the ellipse, or I can edit 2345, which would affect both the ellipse and the rectangle, or I can edit the stops of 1234, which would affect both. This would also make it easy to have a master transformation in 2345 that affects both and a fine-tuned transformation in 7890 just for the ellipse. Perhaps even the same idea could be applied to anything, such as patterns as well. Brian Vanderburg II

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Create inkscape gradient to use in the Gimp
by D. Jones 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

I understand that the Gimp has the ability to svg gradients. How do you create a svg gradient with Inkscape? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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resizing page without resizing drawing?
by Daniel Lenski 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi all, I've been using Inkscape (version 0.45 under Ubuntu) for a couple of months mostly to make technical drawings and diagrams for use on Wikipedia. I love it, but there's just one thing that's driving me nuts! There's no way to resize the page without resizing all the objects in it. For example, I may have an object that's exactly 36×24 mm on an 8×10" page. If I change the page size to A4, all the objects change their size. The only way to restore it is to calculate the *exact* scale factor and then rescale them afterwards... and even then there are sometimes some rounding errors :-( So is there a way to resize the page without scaling the objects within? Thanks! Dan Lenski

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